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PHOENIX — Once the preliminary shock wore off on the worth tag of Shohei Ohtani’s record-shattering $700 million, 10-year cope with the Los Angeles Dodgers, particulars concerning the contract emerged that had been practically as gorgeous. ...

In a deal that addresses two of the group’s largest wants, the Dodgers have acquired right-hander Tyler Glasnow and outfielder Manuel Margot in a four-player swap with the Rays, the membership introduced Saturday. Additionally, Glasnow has agreed to a five-year contract extension with the Dodgers for $136.5 million. Sources instructed MLB.com it features a $10 million signing bonus and a $30 million membership possibility for 2028 (or a $20 million participant possibility for '28 if that’s declined). TRADE DETAILSDodgers get: RHP Tyler Glasnow, OF Manuel Margot, moneyRays get: RHP Ryan Pepiot, OF Jonny DeLuca Glasnow grew up in Santa Clarita, Calif., about 30 miles north of Dodger Stadium. The 30-year-old will slot into the entrance finish of his hometown membership’s rotation. His arsenal...

Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports The high prospect designation is a curse as usually as it's a blessing. The identical goes for the star rookie label, and Gary Sánchez is aware of it nicely. While he has established himself as a serviceable huge league catcher over the previous six years, he nonetheless performs within the shadow of his star-making rookie and sophomore campaigns. And although he’s had his ups and downs, he’s been a strong participant within the years following his lone Silver Slugger season. Since 2018, he ranks tenth amongst lively catchers with 8.6 WAR; since 2021, he’s 14th with 4.6. Yet his repute stays that of a disappointment. His struggles are amplified, and his successes are ignored. Sánchez went unsigned throughout the 2022–23 offseason, lastly incomes a min...

NEW YORK — Mets supervisor Carlos Mendoza thinks it's too quickly to find out whether or not infield prospect Ronny Mauricio can return in some unspecified time in the future subsequent season from a torn ACL. ...

Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports The following article is a part of Jay Jaffe’s ongoing take a look at the candidates on the BBWAA 2024 Hall of Fame poll. For an in depth introduction to this 12 months’s poll, and different candidates within the collection, use the instrument above; an introduction to JAWS may be discovered right here. For a tentative schedule and an opportunity to fill out a Hall of Fame poll for our crowdsourcing venture, see right here. All WAR figures check with the Baseball-Reference model except in any other case indicated. When the Phillies returned to competition following a slide into irrelevance within the wake of their 1993 NL pennant, shortstop Jimmy Rollins, first baseman Ryan Howard, and lefty Cole Hamels gained many of the consideration. Howard all h...

NEW YORK — Shohei Ohtani will obtain simply $20 million of his $700 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers over the following 10 years, with $680 million payable from 2034-43 in an uncommon construction that offers the staff larger payroll flexibility in coming seasons. ...

Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports Baseball trades are at their most attention-grabbing after they contain gamers with notable ability units and groups with broadly various wants. Here, take my Luis Arraez, and I’ll take your Pablo López in return. Your Zac Gallen for my Jazz Chisholm. I suppose the Marlins are, on this approach not less than, my platonic supreme of a baseball workforce. But not all trades are like that. Some trades barely care in regards to the skillsets of the gamers concerned and as an alternative rely to an annoying quantity on their contracts. Take this one, a commerce from final week’s Winter Meetings: Mariners Get: Braves Get: Or this one, which Alex Eisert already wrote about: Pirates Get: Braves Get: Or this one: Angels Get: Braves Get: Or this one: Whit...

PHOENIX — Shohei Ohtani’s jaw-dropping $700 million, 10-year take care of the Los Angeles Dodgers has some similarities to different contracts for the world’s greatest sports stars, together with soccer icons Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, together with NFL quarterback Patrick Mahomes. ...

Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Shouldered with the needle-threading activity of concurrently slicing payroll and rebuilding a pitching employees thinned out by the departure of a number of key free brokers, the Padres traded celebrity Juan Soto and Gold Glove-caliber middle fielder Trent Grisham to the Yankees on Wednesday in trade for 3 massive league arms — righties Michael King, Randy Vásquez, and Jhony Brito — in addition to a fourth who is sort of prepared for primetime in prospect Drew Thorpe and backup catcher Kyle Higashioka. Ben Clemens did a full evaluation on the influence that the 25-year-old Soto, one among baseball’s greatest hitters, can have on the Yankees. I’m going to dive deeper into the arms headed to the Gaslamp District and discuss how the Padres would possibly...

A highschool baseball participant in Gainesville, Georgia, was declared mind useless two weeks after being struck within the head in a freak batting cage accident. ...